Microsoft Live Search Link Command is Offline
Written on September 8, 2007 – 6:03 pm | by gaulardcom |
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I just might be the last known web dude on the planet to notice this, but the Microsoft Live Search link command is officially offline. Boy do I feel like a loser.
I was checking some backlinks today and read a little note on MarketLeap’s website that said…
*Important Announcement!
MSN has recently discontinued reporting results for the operator'link:'. As such, our Link Popularity tool is no longer able to report MSN results. More information regarding their decision is available on the MSN blog.
Well, wouldn’t ya know, I strolled over to MSN’s blog and took a look at the “We are flattered, but…” post. Mind you, this post was written in March. Where the hell have I been?
So basically, here is a key line of the post…
We have been seeing broad use of these features by legitimate users but unfortunately also what appears to be mass automated usage for data mining.
Hmmm, Yahoo! and Google and other search engines still offer advanced query syntax, such as “link:, linkdomain: and inurl:,” or some variation thereof.
Now, MSN can do anything they want and I am not somebody who is going to complain about Windows and Microsoft and all that. I sincerely hope I am beyond that, not that I was ever into it. I am just saying, “look around.” Many people who use that advanced query syntax are acedemics, webmasters and programmers. Those are the exact people you want on your side. How much $$$ has Google made off of AdWords? Gee, who was Google’s first target market for AdWords and AdSense? Man, it doesn’t take a genious to figure out that they are the ones you should be catering to and that they can be very vocal on the internet. I gotta say, it takes a bold person to take away one of the very tools that a very important market uses quite often. Oh well, I suppose I will just have to get used to Google’s and Yahoo!’s tools that they continue to offer.
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Tags: Google, Internet, Microsoft, Technology, Websites, Yahoo!
3 Responses to “Microsoft Live Search Link Command is Offline”
By Jess Sightler on Sep 9, 2007 | Reply
Well, to be fair, the google “link:” search tends to include a very limited set of results. It is much more limited than the number of links actually out there, from what I have seen.
By gaulardcom on Sep 9, 2007 | Reply
Very true. For some reason, Google likes to hide the accurate amount of links and pages it knows about. I think it may have something to do with the amount they actually “count” towards your pagerank and search results placement.
By B Digital on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
True… Google doesn’t disclose all of the amount of backlinks pointing back to a site but the Web site owner does have access to that information. Anyway Googles algirithm weighs each element of a site/linkback with a higher weighting than Yahoo or Ask for instance. It seems that Yahoo reports alot of the internal links and your right, isn’t as strict when accumulating a link popularity score.